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Health Update
12 April 2022 15:35The last month has been kind of garbage but I am trying to recycle it as much as possible and salvage some good things from it. Since I quit my job I have been very sick to the point where getting out of bed has been so difficult. I have also been having severe pancreatic pain again and had been getting violently ill for hours on a daily basis for almost 3 weeks. I was able to be seen as a walk in by my Primary Doctor who is an absolute gem by the way. Lately I have been having tons of anxiety when it comes to doctors to the point I have just wanted to stay home and suffer than to deal with most of them. Reason being that most doctors now simply don't want to treat you or ignore symptoms and than do nothing but keep having you come in to collect payment from you simply to collect a pay check. For over a year I have been going to my neurologist for back pain, weakness in my muscles and declining fine motor skills and yet all he tells me is my scans look better than his. WTF?!?! I have severe bulging disks and herniations and yet he has done nothing to address this finally he sent me to a neurosurgeon who tells me that I have a muscular disorder that has been left untreated along with my known Neurological issues.
I hadn't followed up with my primary Doctor during all of this due to not being able to take time off of work. Now that I have relieved myself from that Job I am going to focus on what is going on and how we can treat it. Last year we discovered that I was having pancreatic issues and was put on medications and injections to help the pancreas. As it turns out my body was rejecting one of the injections and it was causing the pancreas to fail even more. My doctor started me on a new injection for the time being and I am slowly getting use to that one. I don't seem to have any side effects but I have only been on it for about two days at this point. Fingers crossed though and hoping for the best. He also sent me in for and emergency CT scan and we should have the results in a weeks time. I did beg them to expedite the results as I have my follow up on Monday with my primary doctor. We are concerned because my white blood cells are very high as well as my red blood cells too. I am nervous that more testing will be in the future.
Most days I am only able to do minimal tasks then have to rest. It's such a pain I have so many things I want to do and projects that I want to work on but they are all put on the back burner unfortunately. I am still going to push myself to do a few things a day to keep productive. Unfortunately though all of this means I am not able to work at the moment and that alone is killing me too. I am not the type of person to just not work. I hope we are able to find some answers soon so we know how to treat this and I can continue on with my life.
I hadn't followed up with my primary Doctor during all of this due to not being able to take time off of work. Now that I have relieved myself from that Job I am going to focus on what is going on and how we can treat it. Last year we discovered that I was having pancreatic issues and was put on medications and injections to help the pancreas. As it turns out my body was rejecting one of the injections and it was causing the pancreas to fail even more. My doctor started me on a new injection for the time being and I am slowly getting use to that one. I don't seem to have any side effects but I have only been on it for about two days at this point. Fingers crossed though and hoping for the best. He also sent me in for and emergency CT scan and we should have the results in a weeks time. I did beg them to expedite the results as I have my follow up on Monday with my primary doctor. We are concerned because my white blood cells are very high as well as my red blood cells too. I am nervous that more testing will be in the future.
Most days I am only able to do minimal tasks then have to rest. It's such a pain I have so many things I want to do and projects that I want to work on but they are all put on the back burner unfortunately. I am still going to push myself to do a few things a day to keep productive. Unfortunately though all of this means I am not able to work at the moment and that alone is killing me too. I am not the type of person to just not work. I hope we are able to find some answers soon so we know how to treat this and I can continue on with my life.
